• Tinfoil hat time: Mark Burnett says that, even with every spying thing turned off, Win10 Enterprise snoops too much

    Posted on May 28, 2017 at 18:01 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Mark Burnett, writing on the Xato blog, took Win10 Enterprise to task. Even after a very clean install of Win10 Enterprise inside a VirtualBox VM, a run of the Windows Restricted Traffic Limited Functionality Baseline, and minimal connection steps, when the VM sat untouched overnight, it generated a lot of telemetry.

    See the article for some eye-opening details. Hopefully the comments will draw some explanation from Microsoft.

    Burnett’s conclusion:

    if you have a volume license to buy Windows Enterprise (no, you can’t buy just one), apply the Windows Restricted Traffic Limited Functionality Baseline before bringing it online, don’t install anything, and don’t use your computer, the data sent to Microsoft is quite minimal…

    If you don’t have the Enterprise edition, the best you get is basic telemetry (see what they collect), that is if you know to change it from the default enhanced levels (see what more they collect!). For many users the telemetry and other tracking is set a the maximum default levels…

    Home and Professional users are much worse off due to limitations of some settings and lack of an IT staff. I’m not going to bother with captures from those systems, this has already been shared by many others. Spoiler: it’s bad.

    Can anybody here corroborate what he found?

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